Nici Cumpston b. 1963

  • Artist (Photographer)
Nici Cumpston is a photographer who creates images of significant Indigenous cultural landscapes of the Murray/Darling basin. Her images are mostly pencil and watercoloured hand painted black and white images.
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Name
Nici Cumpston
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • Assistant Curator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Lecturer (ANZSIC code: 8102)
Birth date
1963
Birth place
Adelaide, SA
Active Period
  • 1987-
Residence
  • 1963 - 1968 Broken Hill, NSW (Also lived in Alice Springs and Darwin )
  • 1968 - 1979 Manitoba, Canada
  • 1979 - 1983 Riverland, SA
  • Cairns, QLD
  • 1983 - 1987 Alice Springs and Darwin, NT
  • 1987- Adelaide, SA
Training
  • Bachelor of Visual Art, Honours, 2002 - 2004 South Australian School of Art, University of SA (http://www.unisa.edu.au/art/)
  • Bachelor of Visual Art, 1998 - 2002 SA School of Art, University of South Australia (http://www.unisa.edu.au/art/)
  • Advanced Diploma of Applied and Visual Art, 1992 - 1994 North Adelaide School of Art
  • Diploma of Applied and Visual Art, 1987 - 1989 North Adelaide School of Art
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Menindee, Broken Hill, Wilcannia, NSW
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Barkindji
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW
Copyright
  • Cumpston, Nici

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References [<ExternalResource: 'Craftsouth website', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Allas, Tess (2009), 'Interview with the artist'.>, <ExternalResource: Lawrence, Kay and Cumpston, Nici pages 234-245 (2007), 'A Story is Like a River: Weaving the Murray', Melbourne University Press, Anthology titled Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia edited by Potter, Emily; Mackinnon, Alison; McKenzie, Stephen; McKay, Jennifer.>, <ExternalResource: Geissler, Marie (2008), 'An Indigenous Perspective, Nici Cumpston', Craft Arts International, Issue No 72.>, <ExternalResource: Chapman, Christopher (2008), 'Unease', Contemporary Visual Art & Culture Broadsheet, Vol 37.3 pp 209-210.>, <ExternalResource: Nicholls, Christine (2007), 'Responses and Reconciliation', Asian Art News, Vol 17, No 4 pp 74-81.>, <ExternalResource: Waterlow, Nick (2004), 'Holy Holy Holy at the Flinders University City Gallery in Adelaide', Art Monthly No 170, page 24.>, <ExternalResource: Knights, Mary and Croft, Brenda (2008), 'Shards', SA School of Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Gough, Julie (2008), 'The Haunted and the Bad', Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC.>, <ExternalResource: Morrell, Timothy (2008), 'Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art', Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Mayne, Alan (ed) (2008), 'Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia', Wakefield Press.>, <ExternalResource: Ryan, Judith (2007), 'Power and Beauty, Indigenous Art Now', Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC.>, <ExternalResource: Ewington, Julie (2006), 'Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Radok, Stephanie (ed) (2004), 'Holy Holy Holy', Flinders University Art Museum, Adeladie, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Holland, Alison (2002), 'INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS : 1873 - 2001', http://www.commissionaire.net/.>] [<ExternalResource: 'Craftsouth website', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Allas, Tess (2009), 'Interview with the artist'.>, <ExternalResource: Lawrence, Kay and Cumpston, Nici pages 234-245 (2007), 'A Story is Like a River: Weaving the Murray', Melbourne University Press, Anthology titled Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia edited by Potter, Emily; Mackinnon, Alison; McKenzie, Stephen; McKay, Jennifer.>]